Time for some innocent adventuring with this Disney+ series, starring a still very good looking Catherina Zeta-Jones.
In the style of the movies of the same name or Indiana Jones movies when they didn't involve aliens or timetravel, this is just that, some good fun.
When a treasure hunter called Raphael Rios uncovers an artifact, he sends his family into hiding before a man called Salazar kills him in Mexico. In the present day, his daughter Jess lives in Baton Rouge as someone still awaiting her citizen papers, with her friends Tasha, Oren and Ethan. During a locker cleanup at her storage job, she comes along the belongings of former FBI agent and hero Peter Sadusky, and goes to visit him. He notices her necklace and asks her to visit his estranged grandson Liam. While a woman named Billie unsuccesfully send some fake agents to ask for the necklace, Jess and Tasha decipher the picture and find a puzzle box in Sadusky's Freemason lodge.
Oren is taken hostage by Billie, who wants the box, as it contains pieces of a map. Meeting up with Liam again, he shows her a hidden office room in his grandfather's house, containing a paper written by Jess's mom. It turns out that the story of La Malinche, a so called traitor working for Cortes, was actually the founder of a secret society called the Daughters of the Plumed Serpent. They hid cultural treasures from the spaniards, and one box was kept by each of the Inca, Mayan and Aztec civilisations. They go search for an audio clue in Graceland.
At Sadusky's wake, and with the help of famous archeology podcaster Riley Poole (linking the series to the movies), they find out the next clue is at the Louisiana governor's mansion, a diary of a dog, while an interested FBI agent in the case, a young agent called Ross, finds that Sadusky has been poisoned. Billie and Jess team up, trying to convince her she was actual an acquintance of Jess's mother. Jess sees through this though, and their journey brings them to the Alamo. Here Jess deducts the Alamo well does not refer to the fortress, but to the original place in Mexico where the name came from.
Billie frames Jess for Sadusky's murder, but Ross isn't convinced, believing more is at hand. Liam teams up with Myles, his grandfather's caretaker but actually an agent of Billie tasked with keeping an eye on the old man. He can't live with the path Billie has taken, and as Jess finds out the man in a mexican jail called Salazar is actually her father, having avoided death. Breaking him out, they set to the Devil's Swamp as they resolve the puzzle for being a star map. Here all sides come to a confrontation, but it is Jess and her group that discovers the truth of Malinche, as Billie and the rest of her group working to destroy treasures to keep the now going without interference of discoveries from the past.
So this was a fun little treasure hunt series, though it had a bit of a dip of pace in the middle episodes focussing more on teenage relation issues. Never the less, it's a bit of a pity the series got cancelled even with fine ratings, but that is something Disney+ just does for no apparent reason, just ask poor Willow...
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